Lady Emily Kingscote Explained

Emily Marie Kingscote
Birth Name:Lady Emily Marie Curzon
Birth Date:14 September 1836
Birth Place:Penn House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Death Date:9 December 1910 (aged 84)[1]
Death Place:Mayfair, London, England
Occupation:Royal courtier
Children:4
Mother:Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell
Father:Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe

Lady Emily Marie Kingscote (née Curzon-Howe; 14 September 1836 – 9 December 1910) was a British courtier and part of the royal household as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alexandra of Denmark when she was Princess of Wales and later Queen.[2]

Life

Lady Emily was one of ten children born to Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe and Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell, daughter of the 6th Earl of Cardigan.[1]

Lady Emily served as Woman of the Bedchamber to Alexandra of Denmark, who was England's longest serving Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901.[3] With the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, her husband succeeded to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and Alexandra became Queen Consort.[4] Lady Emily was re-appointed a Woman of the bedchamber to the Queen, and served as such until 1907.

Lady Emily married on 5 February 1856 at Congerston, Leicestershire, becoming the second wife of Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote,[5] whose first wife had died in childbirth. They had two sons and two daughters:[6]

Lady Emily died on 9 December 1910 at 74. (Her husband had predeceased her on 22 September 1908.) They are both buried in St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Kingscote, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Obituary: Lady Emily Kingscote. . . The Times Digital Archive .
  2. Book: Howard . Joseph Jackson . Crisp . Frederick Arthur . Visitation of England and Wales . 1914 . Priv. printed . 18 July 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: National Portrait Gallery. 2021-02-08. NPG.org.uk.
  4. [Georgina Battiscombe|Battiscombe, Georgina]
  5. Web site: 1902-11-09. London Gazette. 2021-02-08.
  6. Book: Burke . Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain . 1900 . Harrison & Sons . 898 . 18 July 2024 . en.